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The ocean is another place where climate change is really really obvious, but also largely unknown by the public.

The ocean functions as a huge reservoir for absorbing & trapping CO2. But absorption of CO2 turns into carbonic acid, and humans are producing so much CO2 that we are measurably changing the pH of the ocean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification




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